Animal Rights

Sherbear 5 months ago

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/make...

Please sign this petition to help make animal cruelty a felony in the US!

**ANDREW'S~ ANGEL** 5 months ago

What gives humans the right to take over this land and push animals off of it? They were here first. If you have a pet, love it. If you don't have one, get one. They are wonderful. Man (and woman) need to move over and give this land back to the animals. We are destroying it.

♥ LAUREN ♥ 6 months ago

animals have rights. like humans that have the right to enjoy life, so do animals. animals have the right to be happy. animals have the right to be loved. animals have the right to be respected. STOP THE ABUSE NOW!!!!!

hannah 7 months ago

id rather die than watch someone abuse an animal. i think whoever abuses an animal should be tought a lesson. if i could id show em how much it hurts and how much they suffer my self. PUT AN END TO ANIMAL ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! meghan i looked for u to add u but i couldnt find u. my name is hannah carter if u want to add me. u seem like a nice friend

MeGhAn! AuTiStIc CoW GiRl 7 months ago

your welcome and horse raceing is 1 of the worst!!!

Sandi 8 months ago

Since I was a child I have never enjoyed the Rodeo or the Circus and have never exposed my own children to either of them. I Prefer the Cirque du Soleil , sorry if I have misspelled that....they, as adults, have no interest in viewing this sorry excuse for "entertainment." thank you for posting this...

MeGhAn! AuTiStIc CoW GiRl 8 months ago

IF THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES HAD GLASS DOORS THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD BE A VEGATERIAN!

Marianne Loyd - author & teddy bear arti 9 months ago

For those who are interested, please visit my new blog
called PETA Vs Pit Bulls!

Thanks,

Bebe Le' Strangest 9 months ago

I had no idea that the rodeo was so inhumane! Thank you for bringing it to my attention I will never watch another rodeo and will spread the word! How horrid.

MeGhAn! AuTiStIc CoW GiRl 9 months ago

Montana Governor Allows HB 418 to Become Law!

A measure promoting privately-owned horse processing plant development in Montana became law on Friday when Gov. Brian Schweitzer allowed the bill to lapse into law.



Gov. Brian Schweitzer

The measure sponsored by Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Winifred, aims to limit the kind of legal challenges that forced the last U.S. slaughterhouses, which were in Illinois and Texas, to close in 2007.


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Rep. Ed Butcher

Montana horse slaughter bill becomes law without governor's signature
On Friday May 1, 2009, 8:10 pm EDT

Buzz up! Print.HELENA, Mont. (AP) --

Legislation to allow investor-owned horse slaughterhouses in Montana and limit opportunities for legal action against them became law on Friday, after Gov. Brian Schweitzer neither signed nor vetoed the measure.

Friday was the deadline for Schweitzer to act and, with no action by him, House Bill 418 automatically became law.


The bill includes some protection against court injunctions that would stop or delay slaughterhouse construction. The measure sponsored by Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Winifred, aims to limit the kind of legal challenges that forced the last U.S. slaughterhouses, which were in Illinois and Texas, to close in 2007.

During the 2009 legislative session, which ended Tuesday, Schweitzer rejected the limit on legal action. He said it would strip people of appeal rights important in environmental protection. The Legislature then rejected the changes Schweitzer wanted.

Butcher said during the session that the governor's amendments would make the bill "an empty shell because nobody's going to invest five to six million in a
business in Montana if they're going to be harassed."


Schweitzer has said that as an owner of livestock and horses, he supports the humane processing of horses to produce meat for human consumption.

His communications director, Sarah Elliott, issued a terse statement Friday, saying only that "the governor made his opinion on this bill known, the Legislature did the same. No action was taken and the bill has now become law."

The bill brought lawmakers and the governor a flood of e-mails and telephone messages, from across the country, in support of the legislation and against it.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Montana...



Too many horses: Northwest tribes consider slaughter facility for wild horses
5/8/2009, 10:06 a.m. PT
The Associated Press


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By Lynda V. Mapes

The Seattle Times

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WARM SPRINGS INDIAN RESERVATION-Here on this reservation in north-central Oregon, horses are woven deeply into daily life. They are traditionally used by tribal members in their work and their culture, whether it be for rodeos or horse parades.

Gathering, breaking and selling wild horses has long been part of the tribe's economy. Horses that don't make the grade are sold for slaughter.

But the nation's final three slaughterhouses were shuttered two years ago, and a perfect storm has formed with a glut of horses, lack of a market and economic recession.

Tribal rangeland managers now estimate 20,000 wild horses are overrunning Indian Country in Washington, Idaho and Oregon, with an annual foal crop raising the population by some 20 percent a year. At the Yakama reservation, range managers say 12,000 wild horses are damaging medicinal plants, depleting forage for wildlife, eroding fragile rangelands and harming salmon streams. Domestic animals, including cattle, add to the problem.

"We have been spending billions on salmon and steelhead recovery, and it goes for naught if we don't do something that fixes these other problems," said Arlen Washines, program manager for the Yakama Nation Wildlife Program.

Agricultural and rangeland experts from five tribes have been meeting quietly since last winter to explore options to manage horse populations on reservation lands. Their ideas, still in discussion, run the gamut. The most controversial: opening a slaughter plant at the Warm Springs reservation, and maybe someday packing the meat for human consumption overseas, if the regulatory hurdles can be cleared and economics pencil out.

The Northwest Tribal Horse Coalition, as the working group calls itself, says it wants to save and care for the horses with better management of the herds. The group is exploring adoption and contraception, but issued a draft report that declares some wild horses will have to be killed to rebalance the ecosystem. The coalition believes horse-slaughtering facilities are needed now-starting with a plant at Warm Springs.

There used to be a thriving horse market in this country, with buyers bidding on horses for processing plants in Stanwood, Wash.; Maytown, Wash.; and more than 20 other plants across the country, supplying an eager trade, particularly in Europe.

But the country's remaining three horse slaughterhouses, in Illinois and Texas, closed in 2007 after a sustained campaign by animal-rights activists that resulted in Congress forbidding USDA inspection of horse meat for human consumption. That ended any legal commercial packing industry for horse meat in this country.

Still, there is a demand for horse meat, particularly in Europe. But with no packer competition in the U.S. to supply it, and a glut of horses, foreign packers can set their price.

Trucking the animals long distances to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico also means buyers will take only the fattest, biggest animals.

For the sick, the old and the skinny, today there is often no market at any price. Buyers who remember paying 70 cents a pound at auction are today paying as little as 6 cents a pound-if the packers will even take the animal.

And the problem stretches far beyond Indian Country.

The bottom has fallen out of the horse market just as the recession is driving even owners of pedigreed, suburban stock to unload animals they can't afford to care for, overwhelming rescue and shelter operators.

It's the same story for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which is struggling to feed and care for some 30,000 wild mustangs gathered from public rangelands and put out to pasture in the Midwest in deference to opponents of slaughter.

The BLM is paying $27 million this year alone to feed and care for wild horses living out their days at taxpayer expense. With another 30,000 or so wild mustangs still roaming the range, multiplying every year, the costs are growing. So far, the BLM has no solution to the problem.

Jenny Edwards, executive director of Hope for Horses, a nonprofit horse-rescue organization based in Woodinville, Wash., said that while she is no fan of slaughter, it is a necessary option. "We have to be big boys and girls about this-be realistic," Edwards said.

"It was part of the economic circle of life. It was the legitimate outlet for horses that were unusable for other purposes."

The Northwest Tribal Horse Coalition, composed of members of the Yakama and Colville tribes in Washington, the Umatilla and Warm Springs tribes in Oregon, and Shoshone Bannock in Idaho, wants a rendering plant at Warm Springs where live horses from the reservations and beyond could be slaughtered. The meat and carcasses would be processed for nonhuman consumption and disposal.

Markets for the meat, such as zoos, are being explored. Jason Smith, range and agriculture manager at Warm Springs, has traveled to Canada to examine packing plants.

Several states, including Montana, also are looking into the possibility of reviving U.S. horse slaughter.

They all face an uphill battle with animal-rights activists seeking to restrict slaughter even further. Legislation is pending in Congress to outlaw transporting U.S. horses to slaughter-anywhere.

"It's not an option," said Katie Merwick, president and founder of Second Chance Ranch, a horse-rescue operation in Elma, Wash. "It's not conscionable, it's not moral. It's a horrible, scary transport and a violent death."

She said euthanasia is the only acceptable alternative. While it's expensive-it can cost $750 to put down and haul away a horse-it's cheaper than keeping the animal, and can be paid for in installments, Merwick said. "I guarantee if it was to fix your car, you'd find the money," Merwick said.

But people are simply dumping their animals because they see no other choice, Edwards said.

"Horses are being just abandoned," she said. "All over the place, all over the country."

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The lack of a viable horse-slaughter market has disrupted tribes' traditional relationships with their horses. "They fooled with our culture and our livelihood and our right to work," said Smith, at Warm Springs.

Here on the reservation, horses peer from rimrock cliffs, doze in the sagebrush, and streak in free-running herds across the flats at the base of Mount Jefferson, looking every bit the icon of the West some people think they are.

The highways on the reservation are posted with signs depicting the streaming mane and tail of a running wild horse. On the 1,000-square-mile reservation, fences are few, and horses have the right of way. "You hit it, you buy it," is how it goes around here.

But on this reservation horses aren't icons or romantic abstractions. "We break and sell the best of our horses, and with no horse market, there has to be an out for the old ones, the sick ones, the ones that just don't make the cut," Smith said. "That is a huge part of our management. Without it they are neglected, overlooked. When you neglect one part of the circle, it affects the rest."

At Yakama, other factors have also contributed to the horse problem, including the preference among some tribal horsemen for highly bred, pedigreed animals for use in rodeos and even for status, Washines at Yakama said.

"It affects how people look at wild horses on the reservation. They are not papered, so ... they don't mean anything to anybody. It has affected the spiritual connection to the horse," Washines said. "The two biggest problems is the shutdown of the market for the horse, and the lack of interest in the horse itself.

" ... They just leave them out there and nobody thinks about them, they don't have anything to eat, they eat themselves out of their home range areas and they just stay in the same place. People say just leave them alone, they will be all right. Well, horses don't eat rocks that I know of."

MeGhAn! AuTiStIc CoW GiRl 9 months ago

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MeGhAn! AuTiStIc CoW GiRl 9 months ago

"When God created the horse he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt carry my friends upon thy back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse."

MeGhAn! AuTiStIc CoW GiRl 9 months ago

STOP THE HORSE SLAUGHTER FOREVER STOP FULL STOP STOP FOREVER!!
THE HORSE SLAUGHTER HAS TO BE STOPED ASAP

Johnny 11 months ago

SAVE THE ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!

J. C. @> | 8 YRS OF WAR = 1.4 MILL DE about 1 year ago

FUCKING HYPOCRITES!!! EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE POLITICIANS.

COURTS

JUDGES

LAWYERS

THE ENTIRE LEGAL SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY IS NOTHING MORE THEN A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION THAT TAKES AWAY THE RIGHTS OF HUMAN BEINGS!!!

AND GIVES IT BACK FRO A PRICE!!!

AND YOU WILL PAY YOU BUNCH OF FUCKING HYPOCRITES!!!

FOR ALL THOSE HUMAN BEINGS, CHILDREN OF GOD!!! THAT ARE SITTING IN JAIL, DIED IN JAIL OR AT ONE POINT HAD THEIR FREEDOM RIPPED AWAY FROM THEM BY YOU!!

BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID LAWS CREATED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE AND EXTORT MONEY FROM THEM!!

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!!

YOU WILL PAY!!!

@>
jc

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J. C. @> | 8 YRS OF WAR = 1.4 MILL DE about 1 year ago

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True Living Hippie about 1 year ago

If anyone knows how to post a powerpoint I have the attachment that needs to be spread to all companies for this to be able to happen: The Great Pit Ball. It's a poker tournament, concert, has dining, an art show, and all the proceeds go to Villalobos Rescue Center, who house 200 pit bulls a day average...Help me help them in getting this spread! If it's easier, you can give me your email I can forward the message and attachment to you as well. This is a major thing that is being filmed by Animal Planet and will possibly have it's own 2 hr special later this year, but will definately be the season finale of a six episode series of Outlaw Dogz, also to air later this year. Some of the celebrities already going are actor Danny Trejo (Heat, Dusk Til Dawn), Donal Logue (Max Payne, Zodiac), Bob Barker (Price is Right), Michael Berryman (The Devil’s Rejects, Weird Science) and Pixie Acia (L.A. Ink). Here is the email itself, but we need to get the powerpoint out to any and all companies willing to help out...



"TAKE A LOOK AT THE ATTACHMENT...SPREAD THE WORD. WE NEED SPONSORS....AND HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!!


We need some helping spreading the word to the suits of the world! Please lend us a hand and start stalking.

So the contracts are signed, were going to Vegas. We have many celebrities and bands that requires flights and lodging to be provided, and we need sponsors badly for the event. I am forwarding you a FORM LETTER that can be forwarded along with an attached "sponsorship deck" there are varying levels of sponsorships available ranging from 20,000$ to 1,000$. We were unable to solicit sponsorships until the contracts were signed, and now they are signed.

PLEASE, foreword this email letter and sponsorship deck attachment to any and all companies ie. dog food, magazines, coca cola, pepsi, budwierser, jagermiester, jack daniels, coors, grey goose, kettle one, jim beam, aftercare tattoo products, networks, doggie treats, and company with "pit bull" in their title, chew toys, leashes, training facilities, clothing companies, UFC and their affiliates, tattoo, wierless carriers, websites, bands, recording labels, fast food joints, skateboard co, snowboard co, affliction, tap out, ed hardy, record stores, celebrity charity organizations, cigarette companies, tattoo supply companies, online gambling sites, poker tournaments, Vegas based groups and companies, media sources, etc. Any companies you can think of are welcome.

We have been working overtime to make this event happen, and it's happening, only 6 weeks from now. We need to come together to get as many thousands of emails out this week as possible. WE NEED YOUR HELP. Please foreword this information to anyone and everyone you can possibly think of. Thank you, this event is huge, and insane, and we gotta have some loot asap!

In the letter, it clearly says to refer all inquiries to Julie Starr "Julie Starr" <julie.starr@greenspuncorp.com>, so no one expects you to actually answer emails in relation to this - please foreword all positive responses directly to Julie.

Thank you for your help, seriously. we are setting a new precedent for charitable functions in the tattoo & pit bull communities, and we can't do it alone.

Love and Respect - Brandon Bond - happy hunting...

----------------------------------------------below is the form letter to accompany attachment to email everywhere--------------------------


The Great Pit Ball
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Benefiting the Villalobos Animal Rescue shelter in Canyon Country, CA
for info: http://www.allornothingtattoo.com/index.php?sub=greatpitball

This event will be covered by ANIMAL PLANET, THE FOOD NETWORK, E!, and ESPN. Please contact our sponsorship sales coordinator Julie Starr julie.starr@greenspuncorp.com for more information. We are offering varying levels of sponsorship ranging from 1,000$ - 20,000$ for this large celebrity gala.

On Saturday, March 14th the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV will be host to The Great Pit Ball, an all day, multi-venue event all with the goal to raise money for Villalobos Animal Rescue which saves and rehabilitates dogs who have been mistreated. Animal Planet will be present filming the season finale of 'Outlaw Dogs', a six-episode series based on Villalobos and Tia Maria Torres, the woman who operates the shelter.

The event will include several different large scale components including:

- The red carpet world premiere of "Vicktory to the Underdog", a movie that features world famous tattoo artist Brandon Bond, Danny Trejo (Dusk til Dawn, Heat), Bob Barker (Price is Right), Michael Berryman (The Devils Rejects, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Hills Have Eyes), Donal Logue (Max Payne, Zodiac, Blade) and the beautiful Pixie from L.A. Ink, and Senator Chip Rogers (GA) who is the GA senator who just passed a bill to make attending a dog fight a felony. Previews can be viewed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZymzpYW_uU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPEgwPbR0uA

- A poker tournament hosted by some of the country's best poker players, including World Series of Poker bracelet winner Erick Lindgren and popular pro Gavin Smith, as well as a handful of celebrity players like James Madio (Basketball Diaries, Band of Brothers). http://www.allornothingtattoo.com/index.php?sub=poker is the confirmed players hosting many more are currently having arrangements and flights prepared.

- A 'Chefs Dinner' featuring eight to ten of Las Vegas', Los Angeles' and New York's top chefs all serving up their favorite dishes in a station-style dinner. A silent auction will accompany the dinner. www.rareconceptsgroup.com

- Art Show featuring art for some of the nation's top alternative artists. Many of the artists will be present to answer questions and pose for pictures and autographs with winning bidders. this art show is to be covered by over 40 different art, music, animal, and tattoo based publications.

- Concert at the Hard Rock pool. We have a collection of extremely popular acts performing at this event, we will announce acts next week.

100% of the proceeds from this event are going to Villalobos Animal Rescue (the largest pit bull rescue in the world) and as such all donations and sponsorship programs are 100% tax deductible.

Please let me know if you require any other information regarding this event.

Thanks,

--
Julie Starr
julie.starr@greenspuncorp.com
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Chickens in religion

In Islam, The Messenger of Allah said, "When you hear the crowing of cocks, ask for Allah's Blessings for (their crowing indicates that) they have seen an angel. And when you hear the braying of donkeys, seek Refuge with Allah from Satan for (their braying indicates) that they have seen a Satan." Sahih Al-Bukhari Vol. 4, Book 54, Number 522: Narrated Abu Huraira.

In Indonesia the chicken has great significance during the Hindu cremation ceremony. A chicken is considered a channel for evil spirits which may be present during the ceremony. A chicken is tethered by the leg and kept present at the ceremony for its duration to ensure that any evil spirits present during the ceremony go into the chicken and not the family members present. The chicken is then taken home and returns to its normal life.

In ancient Greece, the chicken was not normally used for sacrifices, perhaps because it was still considered an exotic animal. Because of its valour, the cock is found as an attribute of Ares, Heracles, and Athena. The alleged last words of Socrates as he died from hemlock poisoning, as recounted by Plato, were "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?", signifying that death was a cure for the illness of life.

The Greeks believed that even lions were afraid of cocks. Several of Aesop's Fables reference this belief. In the cult of Mithras, the cock was a symbol of the divine light and a guardian against evil.[citation needed]

In the New Testament, Jesus prophesied the betrayal by Peter: "Jesus answered, 'I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.'" (Luke 22:34) Thus it happened (Luke 22:61), and Peter cried bitterly. This made the cock a symbol for both vigilance and betrayal.

Earlier, Jesus compares himself to a mother hen when talking about Jerusalem: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing." (Matthew 23:37; also Luke 13:34).

In many Central European folk tales, the devil is believed to flee at the first crowing of a cock.

In traditional Jewish practice, a chicken is swung around the head and then slaughtered on the afternoon before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in a ritual called kapparos. The sacrifice of the chicken is to receive atonement, for the bird takes on all the person's sins in kapparos. The meat is then donated to the poor. A woman brings a hen for the ceremony, while a man brings a rooster. Although not actually a sacrifice in the biblical sense, the death of the chicken reminds the penitent sinner that his or her life is in God's hands.

The Talmud speaks of learning "courtesy toward one's mate" from the rooster. This might refer to the fact that when a rooster finds something good to eat, he calls his hens to eat first.

The chicken is one of the Zodiac symbols of the Chinese calendar. Also in Chinese religion, a cooked chicken as a religious offering is usually limited to ancestor veneration and worship of village deities. Vegetarian deities such as the Buddha are not one of the recipients of such offerings. Under some observations, an offering of chicken is presented with "serious" prayer (while roasted pork is offered during a joyous celebration). In Confucian Chinese Weddings, a chicken can be used as a substitute for one who is seriously ill or not available (e.g sudden death) to attend the ceremony. A red silk scarf is placed on the chicken's head and a close relative of the absent bride/groom holds the chicken so the ceremony may proceed. However, this practice is rare today.

Lisa about 1 year ago

I have loved animals my whole life and i have just never understood how people could hurt them! All they want is love not to be beaten or forgotten about. Or forced to fight. Some people just don't think animals have feelings or souls and to those of you that think that way your way wrong! If you have ever spent any time with an animal you could see how much they really can feel! They feel all the emotions that we feel and get scared just like us. They even know when your not feeling well and can help to cheer you up. I could just go on and on about this all day but i wont. I just hope one day there are no more animals that have to suffer!!! Please help stop the abuse and show some love back to the ones that need us the most!!!

Bleedin' Blue about 1 year ago

the cops busted a cock fighting ring in the Bronx!WOO-HOO! they should put a bullet in their heads,even the people watching!!!

about 1 year ago

I LOVE ANIMALS AND NONE OF THEM SHOULD BE TREATED MEANLY!!!!!!!!!

Linda about 1 year ago

As much as I would like to hurt these people who hurt animals, I believe that GOD will take care of their asses.

Linda about 1 year ago

As much as I would like to hurt these people who hurt animals, I believe that GOD will take care of their asses.

yvonne♥ "Have a Heart" about 1 year ago

I am soo glade we have this site! I have love animals from the get go. I had a sheep name Bambi just for a pet. To see what they do to these animals Dogs, Cats, Sheep, Horses, ect...... is soo sick. I can't watch many of these video's. The one thing I don't get and would love to know When the man holding the camera does he finally put it down and help these animals. I would hope soo! I would not be holding the camera with a dry eye. Help these "HELPLESS ANIMALS OF ALL KIND",